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Hello, On September 18th 2020, I was observing Jupiter through my C8, with 26mm eyepiece and had my Sony A9 attached for eyepiece projection when I noticed the ISS make a pass overhead. I set my A9 to 1/800 sec and ISO 2000 and was able to capture a pic by hand guiding my guidescope and keeping the ISS on the crosshairs. I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome, comments welcome at my first attempt at imaging the ISS. Marv -
Hi! I'm Fran Not so long ago I took a picture of the ISS I never thought I was going to be able to get with the equipment I have. After saving for a long time, I was able to buy my first scope, an OTA Skywatcher 200P. I adapted it to be used in a dobsonian base because it was the cheapest way I had to get it to work. One night, I thought it might be cool to try to aim and record with my phone an ISS pass overhead. During the first attempt, I messed up the focus extremely bad but you can't imagine how happy I was to get a white blob in a frame that only I knew was the ISS. -
I managed to capture a Lunar transit on the 28th March and to say it was my first go and I had 20 minutes notice, I think I did pretty good!
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ISS taken with my 10" dob, asi 120 mcs camera and x 2 barlow. Followed the ISS with the finder scope across the sky whilst recording the AVI. This is a single frame brightened up.
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I have written a blog post about imaging artificial satellites, with a focus on the ISS. Since the SGL challenge is precisely about that, it thought it could be interesting to share. The article is there: https://satelliteobservation.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/observing-satellites/ It has a bit of background in the beginning on satellites and how imaging a satellite is similar to a satellite imaging the ground, plus some discussion about the different types of mount and tracking and of what limits imaging performance. The conclusion is that a dob + a high-speed, high resolution ca -
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It's difficult to get a sense of scale in this astronomy game; but we try. So here are 8 pics of the ISS passing between Vega and Epsilon Lyra last night - which is a second's worth of my Canon 7D firing off as fast as it can. The background is a single 30 second tracked exposure for a bit of context. Details: Esprit 100 prime focus/Canon 7D:1/1000s ISO1600 +30s background. The trick if you want to try this is to use planetarium software to find out exactly when the ISS will be near a bright object, then pre-align and focus on or near that object, then wait for the ISS to appear in the f -
iss ISS Transit of the Moon
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Taken at 0218 am on 14th July 2017. ISS transit of the Moon. The ISS had just come out of shadow, was low in the sky: ISS Lunar Transit by James West, on Flickr -
So as per the title it's a hello again! Apologies I've been gone a while (2yrs) due to work commitments and moving home. After visits to the Kennedy Space Centre this summer and having just returned from the National Space Centre in Leicester (kids sleepover party), I dusted off my trusty little Dob and managed to get some fantastic views of Saturn for the family and even watched the ISS go by. Astro fun reinvigorated, clear skies fellow loungers.
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Saw the ISS as it rose from behind some clouds on the horizon, looking nice and golden in the sunset, I fancied I could just about make out an oblong shape to it through my large binoculars. Bit of a shallow short pass as it dipped below the rooftops when it was only half way across, but still special to know Tim was up there waving back at me.
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Here's a snap of the International Space Station. With two "Tims" up there at the moment, doing their bit, thought I would join in from the ground wink emoticon Actually took this last summer, with an ordinary DSLR camera, using an intervalometer, set to take as many pics as quickly as possible. I attached this to my telescope, and in turn set that to track the ISS as is sped across the sky (17,000 mph). As it went high overhead, actually got to look through the viewfinder, and got pretty much exactly the view in the photograph.
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My first attempt at the ISS - harder than I thought and much smaller, I would like to get in closer eventually. Dug the 150PDS out and 650D, 1 x 1/1250 at 3200 iso and a little tweak in PS, manually tracked. Short session but it was worth it
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Taken with Canon 70D with 100-400mm Mk II lens and 2x extender (800mm f11). ISS transit of the Moon by James West, on Flickr
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Hi, since quite some time I wanted to image a ISS moon transit. After my successfull double ISS solar transit I tought that could be another nice "thing to have". After all the fuzz about the super moon I decided "I need no sleep!". Since my Mak127 with my Nikon5100 is barely able to frame a "normal" moon, and not able to get a full moon on video, I used a Vivitar Series 1 Zoom adapted to my ZWO ASI 120MC on my NexStar SLT. That left me with quite some low resolution but I tried anyways. The night was very clear, there was just one thing which worried me. The big walnut tree cou
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I've been wanting to capture this for a while and today was my first successful attempt. This morning (06-29-16) at 7:52:02am PDT the International Space Station transited the Sun and I managed to capture it. Technical details: Lunt 80mm Ha Telescope ZWO AIS1600MM cooled camera Video captured @ 0.050ms per frame - 35fps This is a composite of 1 frame for the surface detail, 1 frame for the prominence's along the edge. And then the multiple frames extracted from the video for the ISS pass.
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Hi, due to the exact prediction from calsky.com I was able to get a double solar transit of the ISS. I found a nice place for observing the two transits at maybe 200m from the calculated crossing of the central pathes. Technic was working flawlessly and so I could take two videos. Here is a video just the raw images: https://youtu.be/PFsZTPoM-ro The combined image is not aligned so far, so the "pilot" of the ISS seems a bit drunk. Ok it was the seeing and wind gusts. I will do a better aligned version when I got some time. Cheers, Carsten PS: Translation of th
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The ISS was predicted to cross the Sun's disk at 15:53:29s on Wednesday. The event was visible in a 6km wide track near my location. Using a home made Baader solar filter on my SW 130 PDS and my DSLR with EOS Utilities I captured the moment, rather poorly. There are 2 GIFs. One is real time as the transit lasted a whole 0.55 seconds and the other is the same GIF slowed down a bit. With hindsight I could have got the image scale up but it was all a bit hectic.- 11 replies
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Green Flash while observing ISS. On the evening of 6th August 2016 I was watching the space station during a pass that took it almost through my zenith point. The sky was clear in Southwater, West Sussex during the entire crossing and I was not using any optical aids. Just after the greatest elevation point which was 87 degrees I observed a bright green flash that lasted a fraction of a second. The flash seemed to radiate out from the tiny bright spot of light of the space station. Somewhat surprised I noted the time as approximately 21:53:55 (taken from my cell phone and estimating ti
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Another shot of the ISS as it passed over London on May 30th 2015. I think this is a slightly better shot than the one I posted a couple of days ago. This time the shutter speed was increased to 1/1250 second and the final image tweaked slightly in Photoshop. The method of capture was exactly the same as before with one person to drive the scope using the spotter scope and the other to rapid fire the camera at the right time. -
A shot of the ISS as it flew over London last night. This is a huge improvement over the previous (and first) attempt last year but I think with a faster shutter speed it can be captured even better. Single 1000th of a second exposure at 6400 ISO with x2 Barlow (cropped).
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Hey all, I cannot believe my luck. I was out on the 31st July practicing imaging Jupiter and Saturn with the my new ADC and ZWO Asi224MC. All of a sudden the ISS started to appear from the South West heading East. I quickly released the clutches on the mount and followed the ISS the best I could with the finder scope. Everything was set in sharp cap for the Jupiter capture, ROI was set to 320 x 240, 2x barlow plus ADC. I could not believe it out of 6500 frames I manged to find 13 frames, which I stacked. Second bit of luck, PIPP said it could not find an object, so I turned the option off and -
Hi, As my GoTo is successfully finished (some cosmetic issues remain) I shoud focus my attention on planets' positions. I have proper source of information: fantastic book "Astronomical Algorithms" by Jean Meeus, thus I will sort the planets soon. But planets are not a challenge for me at this moment, they are just something obvious to do in my list. I have another idea and ambitious plan for next project within the year: locating and tracking the ISS to be able to make a video of its fly, not only transition. Similarly to other objects, I need some equations. I'm pretty sure
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From the album: Stargazing
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2013-06-11 - International Space Station @ 23:32:00
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From the album: International Space Station
Canon 7D with Canon 500mm f/4 L IS with a 2xTC and a 1.4xTC stacked. ISO1600, 1/1000th, manually tracked.-
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2013-06-08 - The International Space Station (ISS)
StuartJPP posted a gallery image in Member's Album
From the album: International Space Station
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